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What is #WriteNow ? #WriteNow is a 5 Day Writing & Connection Challenge – 5 daily prompts to help you get writing and help you to connect with people you care about. Having spent the last 2 months making a conscious effort to write to someone pretty much every day, I’ve been truly surprised about

If you’ve read our Iris series of posts you’ll know she is an amazing 95 year old lady I met in an Aldi queue one freezing cold day and offered a lift to. A friendship was formed during that lift and she trusted me enough to invite me into her home. Being shown around her

If you’ve read Iris and Iris Part 2 you’ll know she is a lovely 95 year old lady I met in an Aldi queue, offered a lift to, accidentally nearly broke her, but still got invited in to her house for a coffee. If you haven’t read about how I met her or nearly broke her do

If you read the previous article about Iris you’ll know she was a 95 year old stranger I met in an Aldi queue one cold February day and nervously offered a lift to. You’ll know we tentatively got to know each other during that lift and when I dropped her home she invited me in

Letter Writing What is it that lures us into the endangered art of letter writing? Putting pen to paper is not in fashion anymore, and it can be discouraging to take a chance by sending special trinkets or secret sentiments through the post with no way of knowing if it will survive. Not knowing if

Way back when, I was about 11 years old and I remember standing at the school gate and one of the mothers from the school was taking names of children who wanted penpals. For the next few years I exchanged letters with Cyris. She was about the same age as myself and from the Philippines.

Loneliness, Serendipity and Ice Cream Yesterday was full of serendipitous moments the type of timing that you think can’t be accidental. The creation of a series of events you know can’t possibly have been random. I love those kinds of days, they restore my hope that magical things exist and life is more positive than

How to Make Decisions When you think of emigrating you think of the sun, the beaches, the chance to make a new life for yourselves. But how does the reality shape up? In January this year, we; that is my husband, my two children and myself, upped sticks and moved to New Zealand. In this

One Letter, Two Sides of A4 & a Whole Lifetime – Adoption Reunion Stories & Post I’m adopted. Not everyone will know that, not because it’s a secret but just because it’s not always something that comes up. I rarely say “Hi I’m Rebecca Bradley I’m adopted.” Because, well… that would be weird. But it’s

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